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Review: Stegosaurus (Invicta)

Genus: Stegosaurus Brand: Invicta Classification: Stegosaur, Thyreophoran Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine, Monochrome

4.8 (16 votes)

Some dinosaurs have undergone quite radical image changes over the years – sauropods moved out of their swamps and got into shape and theropods went from blundering tail draggers to sleek, deadly (and quite horizontal) predators – some of then even gained feathers.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus (Dino-Riders by Tyco)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Tyco Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.1 (8 votes)

Any child of the eighties can recall the baritone jingle of “Dino-Riders!” in their incessant TV spots. Their adventures could be found in comics and television, but what really mattered were the dinosaurs. The story pitted two factions against one another in high-tech, futuristic battles with armored archosaurs donning heavy armor and weapons.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus (Invicta)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Invicta Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine, Monochrome

4.6 (38 votes)

The Invicta dinosaurs are well-known for being quite anatomically accurate for their time, and especially when compared with contemporary competition. Here, then, we have their rendering of the most famous dinosaur of all, and while it’s not bad – especially when it comes to superficial details – it’s certainly not Invicta’s finest hour.

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Review: Elasmosaurus (Dinotales Series 7, by Kaiyodo)

Genus: Elasmosaurus Brand: Kaiyodo Classification: Plesiosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.9 (7 votes)

Review by DinoLord and Plesiosauria
Elasmosaurus was a plesiosaur that lived in the great inland sea of what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period. It is one of the most popular plesiosaurs, second possibly to Plesiosaurus itself, but it is also one of the most poorly known of the elasmosaurids.

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Review: Dimetrodon (Inpro)

Genus: Dimetrodon Brand: Inpro Classification: Pelycosaur Age: Permian Type: Figurine

2.7 (9 votes)

Enough has been said about Dimetrodon. Although it is not a dinosaur, it is among the four best-known prehistoric creatures, together with T.rex, Mammoth and “Brontosaurus”. Dimetrodon is a favourite choice of nearly every company. This seems to have a long tradition, since even Marx and Linde in the 50s and 60s released this Permian synapsid as a figure.

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Review: Velociraptor (Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.1 (13 votes)

Lock up your annoying grandchildren – it’s time to look at the Jurassic Park Velociraptor. Well, one of them – the electronic ‘Dino Screams’ version.

Ah, the Jurassic Park Velociraptor – you have a lot to answer for.

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Review: Albertosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Albertosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.8 (28 votes)

Albertosaurus was a mid-sized theropod that flourished throughout what is now North America during the Campanian era of the late Cretacious about 75 million years ago. It can best be described as a smaller, more lightly built version of its later, more famous relative, Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Review: Dilophosaurus (other one) (Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Genus: Dilophosaurus Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Theropod, Theropod (basal) Age: Jurassic Type: Action Figure

4 (13 votes)

Following yesterday’s review of the electronic Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus, let’s look now at its more basic counterpart in the line – the classic ‘water pistol’ Dilophosaurus, among many people’s earliest and most fondly remembered dinosaur toys. It was the first JP toy I owned, actually.

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Review: Dilophosaurus (Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Genus: Dilophosaurus Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Theropod, Theropod (basal) Age: Jurassic Type: Action Figure

3.6 (13 votes)

More Jurasic Park I’m afraid – although here we have a figure of an animal actually featured in the franchise. Dilophosaurus was last seen giving Wayne Knight a good seeing-to in the first movie, but proved so memorable that Hasbro were still releasing figures of it for the Jurassic Park 3 line.

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Review: Chasmosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Genus: Chasmosaurus Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.4 (16 votes)

Chasmosaurus is surely one of the strangest additions to the Jurassic Park toyline. Although it was at least a dinosaur (unlike Dimetrodon, Estemmenosuchus etc.) it was never mentioned in the books or movies, and isn’t the sort of dinosaur that your ordinary MOTGP (Member Of The General Public…nothing to do with the Moto GP, hail Rossi) could recall from memory.

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Review: Ichthyosaurus (2010) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Ichthyosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Ammonite, Ichthyosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.8 (17 votes)

Review and photos by Dr Andre Mursch (“Brontodocus”). Edited by Plesiosauria.
Ichthyosaurus is one of the most iconic fossil marine reptiles, being a milestone in vertebrate paleontology since it was discovered by Mary Anning, and it was subject of a German poem about the lower Jurassic (“Der Ichthyosaurus” by Viktor von Scheffel, 1856).

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Review: Baryonyx (Invicta)

Genus: Baryonyx Brand: Invicta Classification: Spinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine, Monochrome

4.6 (25 votes)

The spinosaur Baryonyx was big news when it was unearthed in England in the 1980s, so it’s understandable that Invicta would have wanted to produce their own model of ‘Claws’. This 1989 plain-coloured toy is (sadly) still one of the best spinosaur toys yet produced, in spite of its outdated posture.

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Review: Stegosaurus (Invicta)

Review: Tyrannosaurus (Dino-Riders by Tyco)

Review: Tyrannosaurus (Invicta)

Review: Elasmosaurus (Dinotales Series 7, by Kaiyodo)

Review: Dimetrodon (Inpro)

Review: Velociraptor (Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Review: Albertosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Review: Dilophosaurus (other one) (Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Review: Dilophosaurus (Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Review: Chasmosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Review: Ichthyosaurus (2010) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Review: Baryonyx (Invicta)

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